The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1887-07-06
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this world.
ALTHOUGH present, blind man is always
out of sight
THE post-ofice employees number ninety
six thousand men.
KNOXVILLE CTenn.) parties are about to
bore for petroleum.
THE New York Herald advocates the
coinage Of half cents.
The Government is about to stock Salt
Lake, Utah, with shad.
WOLVES and foxes are rapidly increasing
IN some sections of Illinois.
New York is making a movement for
three-cent street car fares.
Missouri woman, six feet tall, has just
married man of four feet four.
THE will of Mrs. Henry Wood, the Eng
1ish authoress, bequeaths 1876, 600
New YogK's latest novelty is q Clerks
Association for marrying rich women.
rdE past month of May was the dryest
known in the records OF the Signal Ser
vice.
PITTSBURGH expects TO have all her cleo
trio wires underground by July next
year.
Mr.. THOMPSON, OF New York, has made
A,0OO,OoO out Of pies in the last twenty
years.
The notorious Ex-Governor Moses, Of
South Carolina, is pardoned out OF Jail
again.
A LICENSE to practice law has been
issued TO David Royston, colored, at Ash
land, Miss.
In California they wear thimbles while
ating grapes to avoid staining the fingers
with the fruit.
EDWIN BooTH and Mrs. Langtry are both
investing largely in mortgages on New
York property.
THE amount realized from the sale of the
French crown jewels, completed the other
day, was 81, 10000.
So called Vienna bread we have in this
country is said by correspondent to be
unknown in Austria.
THERE'S millions in Mexico, otherwise
how could the total debt of the country
amount to l5l,OO0,OOO.
THE death of William A. Wheeler leaves
,he venerable Hannibal HamlIn the sole
living ex-Vice- President.
THE President and his wife celebrated
che first anniversary of their marriage by
fshing and fighting mosquitoes.
BRIGuT's disease seems to be a malady
OF distinguished men in this country, as
govt is, or used to be, in England.
COFFEE is still at a fancy figure OF 100
per cent. more than it is worth, but chic
ory and burned peas are very cheap.
1T is claimed by Key West physicians
that the disease is not yellow fever, but
merely malignant acclimating fever.
SWEDEN has become a great exporter
OF butter. The amount sent abroad last
year was valued at more than 100000.
RECENT Investigations show that the
whole country below Lake Superior is q
mass OF mineral, mostly magnetic iron
ore.
THERE is report that Hon. Charles A.
Dana Is to turn his journalistic tripod over
TO his son, Paul, and retire on January /,
1883.
AN Ohio woman recently cross-exam-
ined her sleep-talking husband so effect.
lively that n divorce suit is now in full
blast.
IT Is the purpose Of the Treasury De-
partment to substitute paper currency
for gold coin as the money of the Pacific
Coast.
The Metlakaha Indians, who are tribe
OF civilized Indians from British Colum-
Ola, have recently established colony in
Alaska.
Miss KATE FIELD has been in Salt Lake
for a month watching the effect of the
Edmands-Tucker law and she pronounces
II a failure.
PHILADELPHIA, Buffalo and other large
Northern cities are preparing TO celebrate
independence Day In the good old fash
toned style.
The New York Legislature has passed a
law making marriage impossible un less
the man Is eighteen and the woman sixteen
years ofage.
HOLLOWAY, the patent medicine man,
who recently died, willed his immense
fortune to stranger and left his aged sis
tiers penniless.
ALEXANDER COKE, who this year gradu-
ated from Yale, is the heaviest man who
ever received diploma from that ins titu-
ton. He weighs 2s5 pounds.
THE pack OF salmon so far on the Pacific
coast Is smaller than last year, and the fish
received are also diminutive. The pros.
poets are considered gloomy.
SuSFLowERs make a good, hot fire. and
FOR centuries have been raised for fuel In
Tartary and Russia. Now they are being
cultivated for that purpose In Dakota.
The damage caused in Michigan by the
forest fires this spring is estimated at g.,
Woon, q large part OF which is du. 70
the destruction Of the town Of Lake Lin,
den.
FLORIDA has no State Board OF Health,
which II unfortunate now that yellow
lever Is within her borders. The general
Soyernmen, has been appealed TO by the
Governor.
MAJOR fooRs once wheeled a barrel OF
apples upon . wheelbarrow thlr,y.six
Rlies from Indian Mn Rae.. A.. 49,. \.